Old Faithful Chat’s Chat Logs October 1st, 2008 View October’s Logs 07:26 bpnjensen I happend upon Lion! 07:26 bpnjensen THAT looks impressive! 07:26 kentish_man Hi 07:26 bpnjensen Howdy do 07:27 bpnjensen Are you controlling again, or Carolyn? 07:27 kentish_man I'm just able to make a few simple manouvers 07:27 kentish_man While Carolyn is out 07:27 bpnjensen OK 07:28 bpnjensen It looks ch-ch-chillly there! 07:28 kentish_man The screen on the cam controller is now so slow it is useless, so I'm using the media player stream to get my position 07:29 bpnjensen Sounds like you have some kind of virus...? 07:29 kentish_man Tom is in his Ohio office until January 07:29 kentish_man Nothing wrong at my end. 07:30 bpnjensen Maybe their end - it wouldn;t make sense that Qwest is getting worse, would it? 07:30 kentish_man It's some kind of bottlekneck on the Qwest network that routes to me. 07:30 kentish_man I have no speed issues on anything else. 07:30 bpnjensen OK - I confess, I have no idea. But would it not be corrected after awhile at Qwest? 07:31 kentish_man One would hope so, but Qwest have a bad reputation according to Tom 07:31 bpnjensen Remind me not to invite themn to the Christmas party. 07:31 kentish_man While Tom is away, a guy called Craig is the webmaster 07:32 bpnjensen Speaking of webmasters,. where has Paul been these days? 07:32 kentish_man Craig Johnson 07:32 kentish_man Paul's been busy doing work 07:32 bpnjensen Don;t know Craig's name - is he a geyser guy too? 07:33 kentish_man He's in the same NPS department as Tom 07:36 bpnjensen Next couple of days, I;m going to see if I can put up some more geyser video. I have some decent (if brief) footage of Spa, and some really nice Sawmill footage. Also some small geysers at Biscuit Basin. 07:38 kentish_man I have figured out that there's nothing wrong with the actual cam controls.The fault is on the video that feeds back to the operator. 07:39 bpnjensen That sounds sensible. Is that Qwest problem, then, or atechie problem? 07:39 kentish_man The public stream is known to have a 30 second delay, but now the operators video is even slower than that 07:40 bpnjensen There is a delay, but at least we get several FPS dependably. 07:40 kentish_man My framerate is almost as slow as the static cam 07:40 bpnjensen That's terrible. 07:40 kentish_man 0.07fps at the moment 07:40 bpnjensen Does gary and Graham have this probhlem too? 07:41 kentish_man It's just the route to the UK. 07:41 bpnjensen :( 07:42 kentish_man My internet company checked it out and they found there was no problem on their system. 07:42 bpnjensen Sounds like Qwest needs to get its act together 07:43 bpnjensen Looks like Grotto is sputtering away. 07:43 kentish_man I tried to contact Qwest yesterday, and after going through several robots they gave me a number to call which I can't afford to dial from here 07:43 bpnjensen Can you communicate vuia e-mail? 07:44 bpnjensen I'd be happy to help if I could speak intelligently on the problem 07:44 kentish_man They don't have that luxury. They use a kind of online private chat room 07:44 bpnjensen That could be useful. I have used that for my own computer problems. 07:45 kentish_man After I explained the problem in detail to the techie, he just typed a phone number and hungup 07:46 bpnjensen I am thinking that a big burst of vertical steam from Grotto could indicate a Rocket major. 07:46 bpnjensen The techie sound slike a jerk 07:46 kentish_man He didn't even coment on the fault 07:47 bpnjensen For a guy who has only a 30-s delay to work with, your accuracy is quite good. 07:47 kentish_man According to Carolyn, Craig Johnson will be back in his office on October 8th. 07:47 bpnjensen Do you want me to contact Qwest? 07:47 kentish_man Would you know what to say? 07:48 bpnjensen Well - I understand that thei connection to UK is delivering only 0.07FPS video stream, and the problem appears to be on no other connection except their, and it ha sbene growing worse the alst week or so. 07:49 bpnjensen Does the stream have ID of any kind? 07:50 kentish_man The IP address is 216.161.195.10 and the video comes to me on port number 65310 07:51 bpnjensen If nothing else, that should show them I have connections :-) 07:51 kentish_man I can even email you a traceroute to give them 07:51 bpnjensen OK - let me give it a try and see what happens 07:51 bpnjensen Shall I check e-mail? 07:53 bpnjensen I need to **** down thre tream anyway for now, but I wil go to e-mail. 08:23 kentish_man Thanks for trying. 08:24 bpnjensen Yeah - sorry. Maybe Tom or Craig need sto call them and chew them out. 08:24 kentish_man I will just have to wait till Craig gets back. 08:24 kentish_man Looks like Carolyns back 08:25 bpnjensen She should log on here - she'd be nic eto talk with. 08:26 bpnjensen Well, I have to do some work. I'll be bakc later 08:27 kentish_man OK, I just aske Carolyn about this room October 3rd, 2008 View October’s Logs 07:29 bpnjensen Grand 0828 ie. Spikes of water seen well above treetops 07:37 kentish_man Hi Bruce, I wanted a chat with you but you had gone by the time I got back to the PC. 07:41 bpnjensen Put a Daisy Geyser video up on Youtube last night. Not great but OK 07:41 kentish_man Did you know the cam fault was fixed? 07:42 bpnjensen The one that has bene naffecting you? 07:42 kentish_man Nothing was said, it was just OK when I logged on yesterday 07:42 bpnjensen Well that's great - I hope that means they have actually solved a problem ~ 07:43 bpnjensen Can you control now? 07:43 kentish_man Maybe they solved it by accident :-) 07:43 bpnjensen Well, that 07:43 kentish_man Yeah 07:43 bpnjensen Well, if they did, I hope it doesn't crop up again. Accindetl solutions aren;t alwasy permanent 07:44 kentish_man I saw Depression IE yesterday 07:44 bpnjensen I saw you asking - did someone verify it? 07:44 kentish_man Only Jimbo 07:44 kentish_man I wish you had been around 07:45 bpnjensen Well, Jimbo has it pretty well figured out. How big was it? 07:45 bpnjensen Comparatively spealking - 07:46 kentish_man It was as tall as it was wide. I would guess about 3ft 07:46 kentish_man Maybe more 07:46 kentish_man I have seen nothing else like it in that area 07:47 bpnjensen Depression has been a bit erratic this year - it may not play another several days now. I am surprised it was so short - you must have seen it well after it began. 07:47 kentish_man Yes, it had already started 07:48 bpnjensen Now that fewer people are in the basin, it is harder to get eyewitness reports. 07:48 kentish_man Isn't it electronically monitored? 07:48 bpnjensen I see Scissors bubbling 07:49 bpnjensen Depression may be monitored. Severeal others are as well. 07:49 bpnjensen Yepp, that's it 07:51 bpnjensen I have seen Depression play twice in person. As a geyser it is wonderful, but it is also (IMO) the elast likely to attract a waitiing crowd of gazers - and yet, IT DOES! 07:51 bpnjensen Kind of funny, actually ;) 07:53 bpnjensen Well, my distypodigitalia is in full swing this morning...I have to correct a hundred errors... 07:53 kentish_man ok 07:55 bpnjensen Vent and Turban are clearly continuing after Grand this morning 07:56 bpnjensen It also looks like either Rift or West Triplet might be going too. You can see a little puff just in the crick of the forestleft of the main plumes. 08:02 bpnjensen Not the IGB, silly, the UGB... 08:02 kentish_man :-) 08:07 bpnjensen There is even a geyser there named Slurp. X-D 08:07 kentish_man Hmmm 08:08 bpnjensen Just a little hole in the sinter in Old Tardy's runoff channel that will surprise you with its sounds. 08:08 kentish_man Do you have a PC at home? 08:09 bpnjensen You know what bugs me? That white pyramid down basin that at qwuick glance looks like a steam cloud. let's bulldoze it. 08:09 bpnjensen I have a PC at home. It even works! 08:09 bpnjensen If I;m there on weekends, that's the one I am using. 08:10 kentish_man If you could get MSN on there, I figured a way you could have a secret play with the cam controls via my PC :-) 08:11 bpnjensen MSN - microsoft network? 08:11 kentish_man MSN Messenger 08:11 bpnjensen Ah - I'm not sure if I have that. 08:11 kentish_man Thats what Katie and Tom chat to me with 08:11 bpnjensen Lion is threatening. 08:12 bpnjensen Oh - no wonder they are never here! 08:12 kentish_man Katie is here now :-) 08:12 bpnjensen I know - I see her :-) 08:13 kentish_man Yeah, she's cute ;-) 08:13 kentish_man ;) 08:13 bpnjensen ...and blushing too. 08:15 kentish_man Actually Bruce, MSN is now called Windows Live Messenger. 08:15 kentish_man It's free too 08:15 kentish_man And you can send files instantly with it 08:16 bpnjensen I probbaly can get that, although I've never tried. My days at home are usually so busy that time for chat is not a frequent option. Sound senticing, though. 08:17 bpnjensen Well, I hate to say it - but its; that time again. Work work work work work...I wil have to say bye and see you gusy later... 08:17 kentish_man Bye 08:17 kentish_man gusy 08:33 kalamitykatie I wanna play, too 08:33 kentish_man Yeah 08:34 kentish_man You have to promise not to tell anyone. If carolyn got to know I'd be in hot water. 08:41 kalamitykatie Let's not do anything that's not on the up and up. :) 09:22 captbunzo hey folks 09:23 kentish_man Hi again 09:23 kentish_man Katies a bit busy 09:23 captbunzo sad news, no ynp trip for me & the family next summer 09:23 captbunzo just ended up being out of our price range for next year 09:24 captbunzo maybe 2010! 09:24 kentish_man You'll have to be content with viewing the camera 09:25 captbunzo yep 09:25 captbunzo instead we'll do a family trip to somewhere in europe, which should be MUCH cheaper 09:26 kentish_man Go to Cornwall, it's beautifull down there 09:26 kentish_man We go there every year 09:26 captbunzo never been to cornwall... :) 09:26 kentish_man I recomend it. 09:27 kentish_man I can even tell you a good place to stay. 09:29 captbunzo cool - I'll keep that in mind 10:24 kalamitykatie Sorry to hear the trip is off, Paul :( 10:52 kalamitykatie stay on the boardwalk, lady! 10:52 kalamitykatie busted! 10:53 kentish_man Thats a hell of a place to get lost 11:28 captbunzo hehe 11:33 kentish_man Just got back from having tea 14:32 bpnjensen Hi, Derek - howzitgoin? 14:32 kentish_man I wish you had been here earlier 14:32 bpnjensen Oh? Why? 14:32 kentish_man 14:50 MDT 14:32 bpnjensen what happened? 14:32 kentish_man Strange Geyser 14:33 bpnjensen about 45 minjtes ago - where about was it? 14:33 kentish_man Draw a line between Plume and Sponge. It was halfway between and slightly to the left 14:33 bpnjensen Pretty big? 14:34 kentish_man Was gushing up to 3 ft or more and went on for at least 10 minutes 14:34 kentish_man I did look in Scotts book. 14:35 kentish_man Nos 41 to 44 are as near as I could get to it 14:35 bpnjensen Probably Plate. Plate is large, happens every week or couple weeks, and is always noticed by the gazers. Plate can have bursts up to about 12 feet, IIRC. 14:35 kentish_man It was big enough to be seen on the static cam 14:36 bpnjensen I'll check the book when I get home, but it sounds like a good match for Plate. 14:36 kentish_man Plate is too close to sponge 14:36 bpnjensen hang on - right back - 14:36 kentish_man If Scotts map is accurate 14:41 kentish_man If the map is accurate it could only be Dragon; Roof; UNNG-GHG-8 or Borah Peak 14:41 bpnjensen Hi - unless it was model again, I cannot think of any other geyser it could be. None of those you mention are frequently active, are they? Boardwalk has bene dead for years... 14:42 bpnjensen So, where si Plate relative to those? 14:42 kentish_man Model is to the right of the line and Plate is too close to Sponge 14:43 bpnjensen So you think these were farther away from Sponge than Plate? more downhill? 14:43 kentish_man About halfway between Sponge and Plume 14:45 bpnjensen Is it possible that you could have looekd at Plate and thoght it was farther way? Plate is located in a recess below Sponge, and might appear to be farther donw the hill than it really is. Plate is hard to see form Sponge itself. 14:45 kentish_man Scott says Plate errupts for up to 3 minutes 14:45 kentish_man This one went for at least 10 14:46 bpnjensen Irf you look on the GOSA webpage, you will see that plate has had generally 6-9 minute plays this year, and in some cases up to 20. 14:47 bpnjensen Also happens more often than every week - 14:47 bpnjensen Grand is going again, in the early part of its window. 14:47 kentish_man If I see it again I'll have to record it 14:47 kentish_man Garry is at the controls now. 14:48 kentish_man He took over at 1530 MDT 14:48 bpnjensen It may pay to watch the end of this one - a second burst could be big. I hope Gary knows! 14:48 bpnjensen A Grand second burst could easily be double the tree height. That would be cool. 14:49 kentish_man I already logged a large Grand at 0827 MDT 14:49 bpnjensen I saw that - but it appeared to be a single burst eruption, unless I missed something. 14:51 kentish_man I wish Garry would join this room 14:51 bpnjensen me2 14:52 bpnjensen watch carefully... 14:52 kentish_man Tomorrow I'm on from 0800 to noon MDT 14:52 bpnjensen There it is! 14:52 kentish_man Yup 14:53 bpnjensen Wait for third... 14:53 kentish_man Graham takes over from me 14:53 kentish_man How many feet would you guess that big burst was? 14:53 bpnjensen ~200 14:54 bpnjensen maybe a tad less, but about nthat 14:54 bpnjensen looks like no third... 14:56 bpnjensen With that, I need to go - gotta get the kid and take him to Piano. have a good night! 14:56 kentish_man I'm going to bed 14:57 bpnjensen Sweet dreams! 14:57 kentish_man Seeya October 4th, 2008 View October’s Logs 15:33 guest540000 Saturday, Oct. 4 - Daisy Geyser 1633 :-) October 5th, 2008 View October’s Logs 12:06 kentish_man Hi 12:07 kentish_man Do you speak english? :) October 6th, 2008 View October’s Logs 08:18 bpnjensen Are you referring to ME????:P 12:06 kentish_man No, not you Bruce. 12:07 kentish_man There was a Guest in here for a long time but I could not persuade them to answer. 13:48 kentish_man We have another guest :-) 13:50 kentish_man I wish these guests could speak. 13:51 kentish_man It's always nice to know who's watching the camera and from where. 17:47 Call me Ishmael Viewing from Monmouth County, NJ. October 7th, 2008 View October’s Logs 07:59 bpnjensen Good morning - I have afew minutes... 08:02 kentish_man Hi 08:02 bpnjensen Howdy. Hope you;re well today! 08:02 kentish_man Fine thanks 08:02 kentish_man But the weather is not too good 08:04 bpnjensen I was looking at the geyser book yesterday regarding that small geyser you saw down from Sponge. I am still not convinced that any geysre other than Plate could have performed as you decsribe, unless it was a very rare LONG Roof eruption. 08:04 kentish_man I think it may have been Plate 08:04 kentish_man Jimbo thought so too. 08:04 bpnjensen Is the weather rain? I sure wish we'd get some - dry as abone here. 08:05 kentish_man Yes it's rain now but should be better tomorrow 08:05 bpnjensen I'd love to see Plate on the cam. After all these years I've never seen Plate except from a great disatnce - like 1/2 mile 08:06 kentish_man I have no way to get your attention if you're not in this room. 08:07 kentish_man Now if you had a mobile I could text you. 08:07 bpnjensen We got just a 1/3 inch the other night - the first rain since February. The weather here is boring - Nick and I were just lamenting that last night. 08:07 bpnjensen Sorry about the lack of avialbility - my job usually distracts me form the important things ;-) 08:08 bpnjensen I have a mobile phone - but I keep it off usually. 08:08 kentish_man Katie has a mobile. She's gonna text me next time she's in front of the cam. 08:08 kentish_man I can send international texts quite cheaply from here 08:08 bpnjensen Well - here comes an OF with nobody to watch it. 08:08 bpnjensen Yon are lucky - I can't do anything cheaply here. 08:09 kentish_man Plume too 08:09 bpnjensen Frankly, I have not figured out how to text properly - very confusing. Steamy Plume. 08:10 kentish_man Texting is very usefull. You should get lessons :-) 08:10 bpnjensen If you want, I can leave the cell on...I cannot guarantee that I can answer it all the time. 08:11 kentish_man I would only call if I saw something unusual 08:11 kentish_man Like I did when Giantess went off 08:11 bpnjensen That was certainly worth the call - and I greatly apprecaite your effiort that day! 08:13 kentish_man You're welcome 08:13 bpnjensen You heard Giant erupted again the other night? 08:13 kentish_man I read about it somewhere. 08:13 kentish_man The boards had been washed away 08:13 bpnjensen Bill Warnock announced on the list :) 08:14 kentish_man Would you like me to have your cell phone number? 08:14 bpnjensen Yeah - the ID signs for the geyser are mounted on littkle round logs, whcih are place precariously so that a godo wash of water will knock them loose and send them rolling. 08:15 bpnjensen I can give you the cell be e-mail - hang on, I'll get it for you. 08:15 kentish_man ok 08:17 bpnjensen I think I just sent it to you. 08:18 kentish_man I'll test it 08:19 bpnjensen anxiously awaiting... 08:19 kentish_man Don't answer it, just note the number that it displays 08:20 bpnjensen so far, nada... 08:21 kentish_man That should have rung 08:21 bpnjensen ok-it did. I have a number - 08:22 kentish_man I have a few mobiles, all pay-as-you-go 08:22 kentish_man That one is best for sending texts 08:22 kentish_man And receiving them 08:22 kentish_man It can handle pictures too 08:23 bpnjensen That's mine, too - but it's about 20 cents a minute. texts are 1/3 that price. I cannot guarantee that I wil be able to read a text - as I say, I am confuse dby that process! mine does not do pix - it is very cheap and simple. 08:24 bpnjensen And I don;t know how to delete them either! 08:25 bpnjensen I do have to go right now, but I wil try to stop back periodically...ciao for now... 08:25 kentish_man I will soon be buying some Skype credit, so then I'll once more be able to phone any USA phone for less than 3 cents a minute 08:25 bpnjensen 3 cents a minute - I can only dream... 08:25 kentish_man If you had skype on your PC you could too 08:25 bpnjensen I will look into it...gotta go for now! 10:01 bpnjensen OF and Plume both at 1100, yes? 11:16 Call me Ishmael K-M, test test test 11:17 Call me Ishmael Am learning how to use your chat room. I have limited exp w/ them. 11:17 Call me Ishmael Twice I tried to say TKS to you folks, but it never appeared on the log. 11:18 Call me Ishmael Bear with me as I climb up the learning curve. 11:18 Call me Ishmael Anyway, what I said yesterday was: I appreciate what y'all do. This gives me the opportunity to "study on" (as Jed Clampett would say) the scenes 11:19 Call me Ishmael I never had time to stop to enjoy years ago when I would drive through the Parks, S to N, and N to S. 11:19 Call me Ishmael I like the fast scan, especially. 11:29 Call me Ishmael I also apologized for being a rude lurker the other day. I didn't realize that t'was me you were hailing. 12:21 kentish_man Hi Ishmael 12:22 kentish_man I was not at my desk when you were talking. 12:22 kentish_man Next time I would very much like to chat with you. 12:22 kentish_man I am one of the 4 camera operators and I am the only one that uses this chat room. 12:53 captbunzo hey derek 12:53 captbunzo how are you? 12:53 kentish_man Hi 12:53 kentish_man Fine thanks 13:34 kentish_man Nice Castle in erruption 13:41 bpnjensen Hi, Guys - here for a brie fvisit. 13:41 kentish_man Did you see castle? 13:41 bpnjensen hey, paul, how are you? 13:41 bpnjensen I;m stil lseeing Castle :) 13:42 kentish_man It was very high a few minutes ago 13:42 bpnjensen When Castle puts on a good show, it commands attention 13:43 bpnjensen This is apparentl;y a major as opposed to a minor, although if ti stops cold here shortly I wil be proven worng. 13:43 kentish_man I was just saying to Katie, I've never seen a high quality video of it with good stereo audio 13:43 bpnjensen Hmm - are there none on Youtube? 13:43 kentish_man It's been IE for at least 15 minutes 13:44 kentish_man Yeah but not what I'd call virgin quality 13:44 bpnjensen Do you have the Geysers of Yellowstone video from Finely-Holiday? 13:45 bpnjensen If 15 minutes, then it's almost certainly a major. I doubt if I have a high-quality video myself. 13:46 kentish_man I have 2 DVDs: The complete Yellowstone, and Yellowstone (everything else is just a movie) 13:47 kentish_man It's still jetting 13:47 kentish_man So must be a major 13:52 bpnjensen I am checking on the Geyser DVD - I want to make sure it is playable on your Region 2 / PAL equipment. I *think* it is Region 0. Or maybe your PC can play anything? 13:53 kentish_man I can play either 13:53 bpnjensen I bought a DVD player that I configured for anything - I figured you might have that capability too... 13:54 kentish_man Most of those sold over here are multi standard. PAL or NTSC 13:58 bpnjensen If you send me your snailmail addy by e-mail I'll make sure you get this soon... 13:59 kentish_man OK, and by the way, my Wife has you officially on our Christmas card list now :-) 14:00 bpnjensen :D 14:01 kentish_man Email sent 14:14 bpnjensen Well, that takes care of that! 14:14 kentish_man Thanks 14:17 kentish_man Bruce, can you keep an eye open for someone in here called Call me Ishmael. He's trying to join in but I keep missing him. 14:17 bpnjensen This country is so weird - they are stubbornly opposed to the idea of selling multistandard DVDs, even though they are perfectly legal. U.S. capitalism can be so so myopic...mind-boggling. 14:17 bpnjensen Yeah, I saw Ishmael's handle earlier. Ahab isn't with him is he? 14:18 kentish_man Yeah and your copyright people are much tougher than ours 14:18 bpnjensen here's a funny - in our newspaper one day, it reported a woman talking to her tiny daughter about whales... 14:19 bpnjensen ...and she said, "When whales get tired of the ocean, they take a vacation, go underground up to Yellowstone \and become geysers." 14:20 bpnjensen I almost split a gut laughing X-D :'D 14:20 bpnjensen Does a kid really need to hear this kind of thing? 14:21 kentish_man Haha 14:21 kentish_man One of our best prime time radio presenters on the BBC is called Ken Bruce. He always seems to encourage people to coment on his fondness for alcohol. Someone texted in to hime with a funny remark: 14:22 kentish_man I understand Ken that you exorcised your friends house....... When you left, all his spirits were gone. 14:22 bpnjensen heh! pretty funny! 14:23 bpnjensen Well, dang it, I have some things to wrap today - so I gotta ago. see ya later...say hi to paul if he comes back... 14:23 kentish_man OK, I'm going to bed soon October 8th, 2008 View October’s Logs 07:52 bpnjensen Howdy-do! Beehive splashes... 07:53 kentish_man Yeah 08:33 Call me Ishmael Just watching from time to time. 08:34 kentish_man Hi 08:34 kentish_man I'm Derek 08:34 Call me Ishmael Ah Ha. At the same time finallly. 08:34 Call me Ishmael Richard 08:34 kentish_man I'm operating the cam 08:34 Call me Ishmael You guys are a terrific find. 08:34 Call me Ishmael The other sites I found were simply static 08:35 Call me Ishmael ...but your controlling the cam makes things a lot more interesting. 08:35 kentish_man You'll never guess where I am located 08:35 Call me Ishmael Ahhhhh, your in GB? 08:35 kentish_man Yep 08:35 Call me Ishmael I read some of the past chat logs. 08:35 Call me Ishmael Amazing, these times we live in. 08:36 Call me Ishmael Have you been there in person? 08:36 kentish_man Never 08:36 Call me Ishmael Bummer. Hopefully your turn will come. 08:36 Call me Ishmael You've obviously earned it. 08:36 kentish_man It is way beyond my budget unless I win the lottery :-) 08:37 Call me Ishmael Sometimes things are pretty cheap, but I've been in the situation lots of times when cheap is still "too much." 08:38 kentish_man I consider myself very fortunate that I am allowed to operate the camera 08:39 Call me Ishmael I can understand feeling that honor. 08:39 kentish_man At the moment I seem to be puting in more hours than any of the other 3 operators 08:39 Call me Ishmael ... and it's combined with the thrill of doing something like that from what must seem like another galaxy. 08:40 Call me Ishmael Schedules and other things that demand our attention vary, but then I tell you nothing you don' t already know. 08:40 kentish_man All the compliments I hear in the forums and from my seniors make it even more enjoyable 08:40 Call me Ishmael Yep. The psycologists call it "validation." Sometimes those guys actually get something right. 08:41 kentish_man On my last job before retirement, I was security camera operator for our local police 08:41 Call me Ishmael Seeing the pics of Y-stone I'm reminded of the story of the guy whose dog jumped into one of the boiling pools and started screaming (naturally!) The man, without thinking, jumped into the pool and they both boiled to death. 08:42 kentish_man Those cams were much easier to operate than this one 08:42 Call me Ishmael The TV (oops Telly) shows some pretty good camera work on the police cams over your way. 08:42 Call me Ishmael I've probably seen some of your work on TV 08:42 kentish_man This is just one camera, where as before I had a hundred to operate 08:43 Call me Ishmael 100? Whatever did you do when there was a crisis on more than one camera? 08:43 Call me Ishmael Hand it off to another operator? 08:43 Call me Ishmael ...and condintue to monitor the rest? 08:44 kentish_man There were 2 of us with a keyboard and joystick each 08:44 kentish_man We also had radio links to both police and the shop security guards 08:45 Call me Ishmael Still, that works real well when everyone is behaving. As always, the workers figure out a way to accomplish a mission which the "suits" have created with impossible standards. 08:45 kentish_man I'm just going downstairs for a few minutes for a cup of tea. I'll catch you again when i return 08:46 Call me Ishmael The trees at Old F. When the column reaches the top of those trees, how high is the water? 08:47 Call me Ishmael Enjoy your cuppa. It's nap time for me. I'm getting over a cold and a flu shot and need to go out this afternoon. 08:47 Call me Ishmael I'll catch you again soon. 08:47 Call me Ishmael Regards 11:55 bpnjensen Hi - when the water column reaches the treeline, it is probably 30-40 feet. That pool where the fellow and his dog calded themselves was Celestine Pool, IIRC. 11:56 bpnjensen BTW, OF just finished an eruption at 1254. 12:54 bpnjensen Hi, Derek - see anything cool? 12:54 kentish_man 13:09 Daisy 12:54 bpnjensen Fun! 12:55 kentish_man Castle is just finished 12:55 bpnjensen Yepp, copy that 12:55 kentish_man I've downloaded a nice video from Youtube. 2004 Giantess 12:56 bpnjensen Is it DMonteith's Giantess? See Beehive earlier? 12:56 kentish_man and another one with Vault 12:56 kentish_man Yes 12:57 kentish_man And the most famous Giant video :-) 12:57 bpnjensen Has to be Monteith's - actually filmed by his wife Tara, I believe. She's a real pistol! Unbelievable emotional response to geysers. 12:57 kentish_man I gathered that :-) 12:58 kentish_man She was running back and forth through the crowd screaming all the time 12:58 bpnjensen I have been trying to find out if anyone has ever gotten a real first-class Giant video. One really nice fellow, whose name is ****, has been there time and again with a fancy video camera, but his luck has never held for that great video. 12:59 kentish_man hehe 12:59 kentish_man That Giantess was really good 12:59 kentish_man I loved the roar of the steam phase 12:59 bpnjensen He even sets up far enough back to get the whole thing in the viewfinder, but it never seems to play for him at the right time. 13:00 bpnjensen I like the Giantess video too. :-) 13:00 kentish_man What's the closest you can get to the Giantess crater? 13:01 kentish_man Go Plume 13:01 bpnjensen Pretty close - the rear part of the loop gets you to about - maybe- 40 feet. Still really hard to see in the crater at all. 13:02 bpnjensen You cna get about 10 fete from Plume ;-) 13:02 kentish_man I did once see a picture of the empty Giantess crater but I never saved it. 13:02 kentish_man I could never remember where I saw it. 13:03 bpnjensen Actuall6y,. maybe 30 feet in back of Giantess. To get to see it well, you'd have to be escorted by a ranger off the boardwalk. 13:03 kentish_man Which you have @ 13:03 kentish_man :-) 13:03 bpnjensen No, not me. Kitt got to once, I think. 13:04 bpnjensen Oh, I get it - a joke! har har har 13:04 bpnjensen yes, I;ve bene escorted from many a boardwalk... 13:04 kentish_man Beehive went at 0936 13:04 bpnjensen phooey...oh well... 13:05 kentish_man On one of Daves videos you could see 2 indicators 13:05 bpnjensen You mena that little squirt rioght at the big cone's base? 13:05 kentish_man Yes 13:06 bpnjensen Yepp - that be the second indicator. A a rule, it isn't the main thing to look for. 13:06 kentish_man I've never seen it on the cam 13:07 bpnjensen There are several small sputs behind the cone as well, which often bubble for a couple hours prior. they are almots imposisble to see too. 13:07 bpnjensen By beyhind, I mean form the boardwalk side. They would be well-ppaced for the cam. 13:08 bpnjensen Big shots from Sawmill :-) 13:08 kentish_man Did I tell you, Tom Cawley is away from the park until January. 13:08 bpnjensen Oh? Why? 13:09 kentish_man He's working elsewhere 13:09 bpnjensen Sad. Is that why Greg has his place for now? 13:09 kentish_man Craig 13:09 bpnjensen Sorry! I have a poor memory for names 13:10 kentish_man Tom is in Ohio 13:12 bpnjensen Well, gotta go again. See ya after a bit. Enjoy the evening! 13:12 kentish_man OK 15:09 bpnjensen OF finishes up at 1608 on Wednesday 10-8 October 9th, 2008 View October’s Logs 09:12 kentish_man Anyone here today? 09:22 bpnjensen I am here for a few...good day! 09:25 bpnjensen Hey, Derek, when you can, could you zero in on the Sawmilllarea again? 09:26 bpnjensen I thought I saw something unusual 09:26 kentish_man So much steam 09:27 kentish_man Your package arrived today. Thanks a million Bruce. 09:28 bpnjensen I was thinking that soemthing there looked like it might be Churn rather than Sawmill, btu I think it's juyst a lot fo extra steam form the hot watre runoff. You are most welcome, and another will be along by and by.:) 09:29 kentish_man If I should go offline suddenly, it's this computer. Yesterday it froze and had to be rebooted a number of times. 09:29 bpnjensen Caught a bug? 09:29 kentish_man I think it might be a video related problem 09:30 bpnjensen Daisy is looking potejntkally imminent 09:30 bpnjensen Sorry for bad tpyngi this morning 09:30 kentish_man Each time it happened, I was running media player 09:31 bpnjensen have you another video player available? 09:31 kentish_man Not one that can play the streaming cam 09:31 bpnjensen Real player does it for me here... 09:32 kentish_man I have a feeling it might happen with any player 09:32 bpnjensen :( 09:32 kentish_man My old slower PC that I use to control the cam, is much more reliable 09:33 bpnjensen But you get a slower framerate on that one, right? 09:33 kentish_man The framerate is not affected by the computer 09:34 bpnjensen That's a big plume...hmmmm 09:34 kentish_man I thought that too 09:34 bpnjensen F&M? lets note the time - 1033 09:34 kentish_man But the steam is not rising very fast 09:34 bpnjensen maybe a Grotto? 09:35 bpnjensen hard to tell - quite a few medium-large geysers are aligned right there 09:35 kentish_man If there's an erruption, there is more heat and the steam tends to rise fast 09:35 bpnjensen ...Unless it's a small geyser 09:35 kentish_man After watching Davids video of Giantess and Vault, I know how fast steam can rise :-) 09:36 bpnjensen Maybe it's a Giant hot period? 09:36 bpnjensen Look at Daisy 09:36 bpnjensen Giant? 09:37 bpnjensen GIANT??? 09:37 bpnjensen Daisy for sure 09:38 bpnjensen I think that's Giant. 09:38 bpnjensen I won;t bet the farm, but...' 09:39 kentish_man Can't be Giant because I can't hear Daves Wife screaming :-) 09:39 bpnjensen :'D 09:40 bpnjensen there Are some solid puffs coming up - still, look s alittl weak... 09:41 bpnjensen On an unrelated topic, my favoreite cookie company just went bankrupt. no more cookies! 09:41 kentish_man Oh Dear 09:41 bpnjensen dang - if that's Giant, it might mean the old boy is back in business... 09:42 kentish_man I'm going to start the media player on this computer so if I disapear, that will be the reason 09:43 bpnjensen When I compare this video to the screen grab on the still cam, it is almost exactly the right spot for Giant - but ti coul dbe Grotto/Rocket too. AAARRRGGGHHH! 09:44 kentish_man You're more a Geyser expert than me. 09:44 bpnjensen Coul dbe Obling too, I guess - blah. 09:45 bpnjensen I think the main puffs are too far right. It aint; Giant, coul dbe Grotto or even F&M. Let's see how long it lasts. 09:45 bpnjensen Boy, that looks good. 09:46 bpnjensen Anyway, we might find out this evening on the lsit 09:46 kentish_man I just checked the forum but nothing from Jombo 09:46 kentish_man Jimbo 09:49 bpnjensen Well, this stinks, but I have work to do, so I gotta go. You may want to keep an eye on when the plume calms down if that works for you. See ya later ~ 09:49 kentish_man ok 12:49 kentish_man - 13:02 bpnjensen Hi, Derek - Jimbo reported seeng that big steam cloud as late at 1115, 45 minutes after we started watching. Does that match your experience by chance? 13:03 bpnjensen The weather really got foggy and bland... 13:03 kentish_man I didn't time it precisely 13:03 kentish_man But it did go on for quite a while after you left 13:04 bpnjensen no biggie, just curious - I'm glad it persisted. I;d love to see that it was a Giant 13:06 bpnjensen To be honest, doing this by remote camera is both invigorating and frustrating - it gets the adrenaline flowing just enough to make your teeth grit when you cannot quite figure it out :S 13:06 kentish_man I am a novice,but I am quite sure there would be much more steam if it had been Giant 13:07 bpnjensen I think you are right. That doesn't prevent me from wishing. 13:08 bpnjensen If it was not Giant, I don't think it could have been anything else but a short Grotto/Rocket combo. Nothing else really matches all the data. 13:09 kentish_man With all that steam and rain, I seem to lack enthusiasm at the controls at this moment 13:09 bpnjensen I understand, the lower end is pretty bland. 13:10 kentish_man Yeah, I just had a quick look 13:10 bpnjensen I think I am seeing snowflakes 13:10 bpnjensen No? 13:11 bpnjensen Maybe just rain 13:11 kentish_man Noe Carolyn is home and available she has altered my start times to 8:30 MDT every day 13:11 bpnjensen Ok with you? 13:12 kentish_man I don't mind 13:12 kentish_man You could be right about the snow. 13:13 kentish_man I just zoomed up on the boardwalk 13:13 bpnjensen It seems to be variable enough in trajectory... 13:13 kentish_man You missed something yesterday 13:14 bpnjensen Oh, NO!!!! :( 13:14 kentish_man Right where the cam is aimed now, some guy parked his car there 13:14 bpnjensen !!!! Must have been a new guy in town. 13:14 kentish_man No Rangers came out 13:15 bpnjensen he didn;t driv eon the boardwalk, did he? 13:15 kentish_man Like a few days ago when that old Lady walked over close to split cone 13:16 bpnjensen I missed that too - I just love to see it. Snow fer sure now... 13:16 kentish_man He drove back towards the VC 13:16 kentish_man That woman was stpped by a Lady Ranger 13:17 bpnjensen It takes some doing to get out there - you have to drive over a couple of spots where it is obviously not intended for cars. 13:17 bpnjensen I was gonna say - is Beehive splashing? Or just heavy breathing? 13:23 bpnjensen I gotta go back to the grindstone...maybe see ya after awhile. 13:23 kentish_man ok October 10th, 2008 View October’s Logs 07:39 bpnjensen Wow! Look at da snow! 07:40 kentish_man Yep 07:40 bpnjensen I'm eating York peppermint patties. How come all the good candy comes from England? 07:41 kentish_man I never heard of them 07:41 kentish_man Perhaps they are made for USA 07:41 bpnjensen Maybe we ripped off the name... ;-) 07:42 bpnjensen Hey! The winky smile works now! ;-) ;-) 07:43 bpnjensen The sky is still kind of bland. Oh, well, that's winter for ya... 07:46 kentish_man Got myself a new watch this morning 07:46 kentish_man With some of my 60th birthday present money 07:46 kentish_man It sycronizes itself by a radio signal 07:47 bpnjensen Cool - is it one of those atomic watches? That's what everyone uses in the basins...Happy Birthday! many happy returns! 07:47 kentish_man Birthday is on sunday but thanks for your present :-) 07:47 bpnjensen Do you know where your signal comes from? I would guess that England has one... 07:48 kentish_man Ours is up in the northwest in the county of Cumbria. 07:48 kentish_man Yours is in Fort Collins 07:49 kentish_man There's also one in Germany that we can pick up from here 07:49 bpnjensen I have a real cheap one here but it telles the time. We have our NIS atomic clock in Colorado, that's right, Ft. Collins, and we get a signal from both Ft. Collins and Hawaii. 07:49 kentish_man Mine is a Casio 3053 07:50 bpnjensen Mine is a La Crosse - something. 07:50 bpnjensen Does yours have a plastic frame? 07:50 kentish_man The watches pick up the Low frequency signal om 60 khz 07:51 kentish_man I don't actually have mine right now. The bracelett was to big so they are getting it corrected. 07:51 kentish_man I should have it back next week. 07:51 kentish_man too big 07:51 kentish_man I already have 2 weather stations that use the atomic clocks 07:52 bpnjensen My plastic frame broke (cheap crummy thing) so now I have it in pocket. I like atomic clocks - I am a nut for chronological accuracy. 07:52 kentish_man Me too 07:53 bpnjensen Being a shortwave radio enthusiast also, I find it is important for many purposes. 07:53 kentish_man I used to pick up the short wave signals from the usa time stations. 5, 10,15 mhz 07:53 bpnjensen Lion is roaring :> 07:53 bpnjensen Have you a shortwave radio? 07:54 kentish_man I only have a portable now, but I used to have a Yaesu FRG7 many years ago 07:54 kentish_man I do have a Yupiteru Scanner 07:55 bpnjensen The FRG7s were/are really well-regarded. I currently have an Icom R75 and a Radio Shack DX399, which is made by someone else. Didn;t Lion almost erupt? 07:55 bpnjensen Lion wa sjust doing something! 07:56 bpnjensen LION! LION! 07:56 kentish_man Sorry, with all that steam I missed it. Just going back now 07:56 bpnjensen OK :-) 07:56 bpnjensen Yepp -=pretty steamy 07:57 bpnjensen So - Lion at 0855. next one maybe at 1025 give or take... 07:58 kentish_man Do you have any Yupiteru agents near you? 07:59 bpnjensen Here in a major metro area, we have practically everything for sale, adn we have a place called Ham Radio Outlet that probbaly carries them. I don;t knwo if they do repairs. 07:59 bpnjensen That Lion was fairly brief - likely not an initial. 08:00 kentish_man One of my 2 Yupiteru MVT-7100 has a deaf RF board 08:00 bpnjensen Nobody repiorted from the basin yesterday - never did find out what that steam cloud was at 1033 yesterday. 08:00 kentish_man Caused by a washer dropping dwon and shorting something 08:00 kentish_man I'd love to get that fixed 08:01 bpnjensen So the incoming RF signal is not received? 08:01 kentish_man It does receive, but only very strong signals 08:01 bpnjensen Did you get the washer out? There must be a repair place near London 08:02 kentish_man I did get the washer out. none of our agents seem interested in fixing it. 08:02 kentish_man It scans OK but all the signals are very weak. 08:03 bpnjensen That's too bad. Does Yupiteru have a repair facility? Is it my understanding 08:03 bpnjensen that in the UK you need a license to receive radio signals other than orinary domestic radio ? 08:03 kentish_man There are three circuit boards. the front-end RF board is the one nearest the speaker 08:04 kentish_man There is no such licence 08:04 bpnjensen We have techs here that would probbaly be happy to repair it. 08:04 kentish_man Scanners are sold in many electronic or radio shops 08:05 kentish_man We don't have Tandy (Radio Shack) stores any more 08:05 bpnjensen I am glad to hear that no license is required. I had heard this some time ago, and was told that SW/HF reception is regulated. 08:06 kentish_man Even our CB is de regulated now. No licence required. 08:06 kentish_man We only pay a license for TV reception 08:07 kentish_man That's how the BBC is financed 08:07 bpnjensen What a steambath...' 08:09 kentish_man How long before I see some Bison back on Geyser Hill? 08:09 bpnjensen I love the smell of the geyser basin. It isn't storng as some people suspect...it is a mild earthy small, and very appealing... 08:10 bpnjensen the Bison should be there soon, anytime really. Uusally they are there by now in good nuymbers. 08:11 bpnjensen Remmeber, last year a record number were shot at the mnorth entrance, and then the bad winter took many of what were left, so their numbers are lesser this year :'( 08:11 kentish_man I did see some elk or something similar afew days ago in the area the cam is now pointing 08:12 bpnjensen Elk are very common and numerous there. Even with wolves returned, the elk pops are huge, in the tens of thousands. 08:12 bpnjensen Jimbo's fave 08:13 kentish_man You can even see water 08:13 bpnjensen I am seeing faint flares of bright white occasionally 08:13 kentish_man No, Jimbo likes the Dwarfs :-) 08:14 bpnjensen We should call him Snow White next time and se if he gets the joke... 08:15 kentish_man I wish George Heinz could see this 08:15 bpnjensen Well - duty calls. Probbaly back a little later. Good afternoon! Enjoy the watch... 08:15 kentish_man OK October 13th, 2008 View October’s Logs 08:36 kentish_man Hi 08:52 kalamitykatie Good morning 08:54 kentish_man How are you? 08:58 kalamitykatie I think I've turned the corner, though... 09:01 kentish_man Turned the corner? 09:05 kentish_man What corner? :) 09:08 kalamitykatie toward feeling better 09:17 bpnjensen Watch Daisy - 09:18 kentish_man Hi Guest 09:19 kentish_man Hi Bruce 09:19 bpnjensen Howdy 09:20 bpnjensen Saw a good cloud from over Black Sand Basin way 09:20 kentish_man Clouds everywhere :) 09:20 bpnjensen It's that October chill... 09:22 bpnjensen Comet is putting up so much steam, it's hard to tell if Daisy if fixin' or not... 09:23 bpnjensen It looks promising tho... 09:23 bpnjensen My stream is stuttering badly this AM 09:23 kentish_man Bruce, are you free for a call to your mobile? 09:24 bpnjensen yepp give it about 1 minute 09:37 kentish_man BEEHIVE :D 09:39 kalamitykatie did I miss it or still indicator? 09:40 kentish_man There it is 09:41 kalamitykatie ah...! 09:42 kentish_man Indicator reached quite a height then October 14th, 2008 View October’s Logs 09:41 kalamitykatie looks chilly 12:33 captbunzo hi derek 12:33 kentish_man Hi 12:33 captbunzo I thought I'd pop in for a bit 12:42 kentish_man I was just chatting to Carolyn on the phone via skype. 12:47 captbunzo how was her trip? 12:54 kentish_man Fine. She'll be back early next year 13:02 bpnjensen Hi, Guys - wazzup? 13:02 kentish_man Hi Bruce 13:02 kentish_man I got a nice DVD in the post this morning. 13:03 bpnjensen :) 13:03 bpnjensen That was fast! 13:03 bpnjensen Lion 1403 13:04 bpnjensen That is, Lion 1403 ie 13:04 bpnjensen Did you watch it yet? I hope it isn't too repetitive of what you've seen... 13:04 kentish_man I have a friend in Bulgaria watching too. 13:05 bpnjensen Cool! Spread the geyser gospel around the world! 13:05 kentish_man I watched most of it this afternoon. It was great :P 13:05 kentish_man Hi Guest 13:06 bpnjensen Look for Lion again about 1530 give or take 13:06 bpnjensen *Ping!* Paging Paul, paging Paul *ping* 13:07 captbunzo sorry, back :) 13:08 bpnjensen Howdy! 13:08 captbunzo hi bruce! 13:08 kentish_man We are waiting for Craig to find the time to pop over from Mamouth park HQ to clean the glass 13:08 bpnjensen How are things? 13:08 captbunzo I was watching some geyser video on youtube 13:08 captbunzo giantess and then giant. 13:08 captbunzo found a nice high def video of giant. 13:08 bpnjensen I'll grab a plane, fly up there and clean that glass myself... 13:08 captbunzo so, how's life bruce? 13:09 bpnjensen Where;s the Giant video? 13:09 bpnjensen Luife is OK, but it ain;t like being in Wyoming... 13:09 bpnjensen Is the Ginat video one of Dave and Tara's? 13:10 bpnjensen I love Youtube - I've put 12 vids there now. Not really hi-def, but not too awful considering... 13:11 captbunzo I think. 13:11 bpnjensen Good!;) 13:11 kentish_man I notice the narator on the DVD said Plume errupts every 30 minutes 13:11 captbunzo I have one grand video I've posted to youtube/flickr 13:11 captbunzo but it's really bad :) 13:12 bpnjensen Yeah, back at the time it was made that might have bene the interval. Your Grand video isn't bad Paul! It's wonderful to have it! 13:12 captbunzo hehe 13:12 captbunzo next time I'll get some better pics 13:12 bpnjensen hey, when you gonna get those resources linked? 13:13 captbunzo hehe - was wondering if anyone had noticed that 13:13 captbunzo I ran into an annoying brick wall with the way the windows media plugin works. 13:13 captbunzo but I think I gound a good solution. 13:13 captbunzo just need to get off my lazy bum. 13:13 bpnjensen I;d recommend two links - one to GOSA and one to a good UGB map that delineates the entire range of the webcam 13:14 bpnjensen Windows is screwy. never trust a microsoft product. ever. 13:14 captbunzo can you email me links to those things? 13:14 captbunzo -------------------? 13:15 bpnjensen Well - we might need to prepare the map, but I'll get you the GOSA link shortly -0 I can veen put it here. 13:15 kentish_man Can you see all those Bison? 13:15 captbunzo email me, preferrably. 13:16 bpnjensen OK - but anyway, heres the GOSA website: http://www.geyserstudy.org/ 13:16 captbunzo k 13:16 captbunzo I might have that on my list already. 13:16 captbunzo basically, I need to decide on a list of categories and then the items under each. 13:28 bpnjensen Well, back again - the basin bison be back too! 13:32 bpnjensen Looks like Sawmill and Grotto are playing 13:32 bpnjensen Spasmodic too 13:32 bpnjensen maybe? No! That was Old tardy I think! 13:33 bpnjensen Dasiy s steaming pretty good 13:34 bpnjensen watch daisy occasionally 13:37 bpnjensen Well, I'm pretty sure I saw Old Tardy play - that would make one more fully visible geyser, and a possible prelude to some others in the Sawmill Group. 13:39 bpnjensen Well, dang it , I need to go - see you guys later on... 13:40 kentish_man OK 16:06 captbunzo gonna head to bed now, derek... (when you see this) 16:06 captbunzo have a good evening :) October 15th, 2008 View October’s Logs 10:22 kentish_man Hi 10:26 kentish_man Going for tea now. 11:30 kalamitykatie oh, man! tell someone to clean the glass! October 16th, 2008 View October’s Logs 10:33 kentish_man Test 10:36 bpnjensen Hi, Derek - do we have a blackout today? 10:37 kentish_man A blackout? 10:37 bpnjensen Yeah - I see no stream at all, ust black screen. 10:38 kentish_man Just checking 10:38 bpnjensen Maybe it's our firewall. 10:38 kentish_man Same here 10:39 kentish_man I'll call Carolyn 10:39 bpnjensen Darn - that means I have to watch "geyser reruns" on Youtube today:'(;P 10:42 kentish_man OK, she's going to report it. 10:42 kentish_man Seeing as I've got no audience, I'll go for some tea. 10:48 bpnjensen None for me, thanks, - I'm a tea-totaller (sorry, dumb joke) :P 13:53 bpnjensen yay, a stream! what's that thnig near Sponge? 13:54 bpnjensen There's all mkind so fo things going on - is that North Goggles? 13:54 kentish_man Just steam 13:54 bpnjensen Might be just Beach And Ear springs... 13:54 bpnjensen That was ALOT of steam! 13:55 kentish_man We already had a nice Beehive with BOTH indicators 13:56 bpnjensen I see steam coming fro wher Heart Spring is... 13:56 bpnjensen I aslo saw something near the trail sign 13:56 bpnjensen And the thing near Sponge was very strong... 13:57 bpnjensen Glad Beehive was fun! 13:57 kentish_man Yesterday I saw a Beehive with no indicator 13:57 bpnjensen Yeah, Thta's what Bill Warnock reported... 13:59 kentish_man Do you know Graham Meech? 13:59 bpnjensen Today's double indicator must have been to make up for yesterday's no-show 14:00 bpnjensen I have seen his name and his photos, but I;ve never met him. 14:00 bpnjensen Is he the Graham? 14:00 kentish_man Well I discovered he is one of the cam operators 14:00 kentish_man He was born here in England. 14:01 kentish_man But lives in Virginia 14:01 bpnjensen Ah - I thought that might be the case. I know of very other Graham's besides Graham Kerr, who was alos born in England :-). 14:01 bpnjensen So, is there some thingh about Brits and webcams that go together? 14:01 kentish_man Graham sent me an email to introduce himself 14:02 kentish_man Hehe, Carolyn is a full bloode american. :-) 14:02 kentish_man blooded 14:02 bpnjensen Great! Whatever we can do to suppiort this happy habit is a good thing. 14:02 bpnjensen The lighting is prety nice. 14:02 kentish_man I don't know anything about Garry 14:03 bpnjensen Of is going. I don;pt knwo Gary - yet... 14:03 bpnjensen How did I do THAT? 14:05 bpnjensen Lord, I wish I was there instead of here. 14:06 kentish_man You will be in a few months 14:06 bpnjensen I doubt it - not this year. 14:07 bpnjensen If Giant should begin playing aagin, or Splendid, I would make a special trip - but otherwise, I think we need to stick closer to home. 14:08 kentish_man Just for a change, you could come over here :-) 14:08 bpnjensen :D That's an idea. 14:10 kentish_man There's a lot of steam at the Giantess mound. 14:10 bpnjensen Yeah, quite a bit. 14:10 bpnjensen hard to see just now. 14:12 kentish_man Carolyn told me that Craig plans to visit old faithfull this wekend to clean the lens and sort out a couple of other technical problems 14:12 kentish_man There is apparently a wiper on the cam, but he couldn't activate it remotely. 14:13 bpnjensen That's good. I am not seeing much crud on the lens just now, but maybe it is more visible in the AM 14:13 kentish_man Now look 14:13 bpnjensen Yeah - the defocus on the wide angle brings it out. 14:14 bpnjensen I just saw a good dteam puff abogve the trees near OF and it was not Solitary 14:15 bpnjensen I think that cloud downbasin is propbbaly Grotto 14:25 kentish_man Goodnight. Carolyn is taking over from now. 14:27 bpnjensen goodnight :-) October 17th, 2008 View October’s Logs 09:57 bpnjensen Bonjour - it's been a frantic start, but I've found a few moments for play. 09:58 bpnjensen there's athat steam cloud below Sponge again! 09:58 bpnjensen It;'s a geyser! 10:00 bpnjensen I'm sure I saw some white in the middle of that gray... 10:01 kentish_man Hi Bruce 10:01 bpnjensen Hey! 10:03 kentish_man Jimbo thought there may have been a Giant earlier. When I logged on at 8:30 MDT there was a hell of a lot of concentrated steam there 10:03 bpnjensen Well - that would be wonderful! I wonder if he got any web captures 10:05 kentish_man Tomorrow I'm on from daybreak until noon MDT 10:05 kentish_man Then Sunday from Daybreak until 14:30 10:06 kentish_man Carolyn has some family comitments 10:11 bpnjensen Family commitments - my entire blood relative contingent is at least 1,000 miles away. I don't see them very much. 10:12 kentish_man My only brother lives not far from Carolyn 10:14 bpnjensen Back in Connecticut, that's right. 10:15 bpnjensen looks like a Turban cycle 10:17 bpnjensen And... Turban ends without a Grand 10:20 bpnjensen When you see Spasmodic without Sawmill, it can be worthwhile to Zoom in - you might see a rare Penta eruption. 10:20 bpnjensen It might even be Penta instead of Spas. 10:21 bpnjensen Petna is just across the boardwalk. It's play is much different, witn a fairly steady shooting jet to about 20 or even 25 feet. 10:22 bpnjensen My hunch, based on the scene, is that it would probbaly be visible behind one of those little trees. 10:22 bpnjensen It's steamy near Daisy, but that might just be Comet doing its thing (near-perpetual spouter). 10:25 bpnjensen I've never figured out where Daisy Geyser got its name. 10:26 bpnjensen Well, I needago for a awhile back later, probably...Ciao 10:27 kentish_man Can you email me your address again 10:40 kentish_man Forget that. I just found it. 13:43 kentish_man Hi Bruce 13:43 bpnjensen How-dy! 13:44 kentish_man I'm still logged onto the cam but Garry should take over at 14:30 mdt. 13:44 bpnjensen I actually got some stuff done this morning; unusual for a Friday ;) 13:45 bpnjensen Looks like Garry is late??? 13:45 kentish_man He's never on time 13:45 bpnjensen The scoundrel! 13:45 kentish_man If I log out the cam defaults to the drops on the glass 13:46 bpnjensen Oh? Your logging off affecst the focus? 13:46 kentish_man The default position is wide angle 13:46 bpnjensen Something is erupting down there... 13:47 bpnjensen Grand?? No? 13:48 bpnjensen I see both Spasmodic and probably Rifit or West Triplet, plsu whatever is in back... 13:48 kentish_man Hehe, you tell Me. 13:49 bpnjensen That might have been a big Turban. i think the partly hidden th****** Rift. have you seen a Grand today? 13:50 kentish_man No 13:51 kentish_man I have seen part of castle, and a non initial Lion 13:51 kentish_man Plus Beehive 13:52 bpnjensen Well - a Rift usually means some kind of delay in Grand, and it could be short or long depending how long Rift plays. The steadiness and durability of that rear cloud sure looks like Rift, and that probbaly means no Grand for awhile yet. 13:52 bpnjensen Glad you saw the Beehive. Probably the best geyser from the webcam perspective (outside OF, of course)... 13:54 bpnjensen Well I hope Craig gets up to clean that glass this weekend... 13:55 bpnjensen Today and tomorrow Nick is completely involved with a marching band competition - cool dusty bison! 13:55 bpnjensen This coul dbe fun :-) 13:55 bpnjensen Broaden out a litte to see what the peeps are doing! 13:57 bpnjensen Wow - if someone uses their head, they'll get a real classic Yellowstone photo! 13:57 kentish_man Jimbos just posted some pics for you in the forum 13:57 bpnjensen Those guys must have just come across the parking lot 13:57 bpnjensen I will chekc th ephotos now... 13:57 kentish_man In the cam reports 14:00 kentish_man Look at the cam 14:01 bpnjensen Whoa! Cars! 14:01 bpnjensen ranger? 14:01 bpnjensen It's a ranger there to keep peepes away form bison. 14:02 bpnjensen Fun! 14:02 bpnjensen It would be more fun, though, to see people start scattering ahead of a stampede... 14:02 bpnjensen Is that a cooler? 14:03 bpnjensen Someone left their soda cooler on the bench... 14:04 bpnjensen The herd si starting to move into the still cam view 14:04 bpnjensen OF is eruopting! gte it all! 14:05 bpnjensen HEY!!! 14:05 kentish_man There's a delay in the stream 14:05 bpnjensen This is great! 14:06 bpnjensen Those folks got some great shots! 14:06 bpnjensen I grabbed a webcam shot at the max height... 14:08 bpnjensen Just sent it to you. 14:09 bpnjensen 7 months old 14:09 bpnjensen It's about time fore those guys to migrate... 14:10 bpnjensen Lion ;-) 14:11 bpnjensen LION! 14:12 bpnjensen Why are those blokes walking away from Lion? Sheesh... 14:13 bpnjensen Thta's a big boy... 14:13 bpnjensen I hate to say it - but I have to finish up a couple things. have a great evening, Derek! 14:14 kentish_man OK seeya 15:23 captbunzo hi derek 15:23 kentish_man You missed the Bison stampede 15:23 captbunzo hehe - bison across old faithful? 15:24 kentish_man A large herd came from behind the lodge 15:24 captbunzo hehe :) 15:24 kentish_man A park ranger car managed to keep the seperate from the people 15:24 captbunzo ah, the ever continuing challenges of YNP management 15:25 kentish_man They've all moved now 15:26 kentish_man Just saw Katie 15:26 captbunzo in the park? 15:26 kentish_man She text me and I phoned her 15:26 captbunzo ah,bison :) 15:26 kentish_man She was in front of the cam 15:26 captbunzo cool 15:29 kentish_man Last time I saw her she was heading towards Castle 15:36 captbunzo is that grand? daisy? 15:37 kentish_man Grand, and O.F. is due 15:41 kentish_man I was supposed to logg off 2 hours ago 15:42 kentish_man But gary's late as usual and there was too much going on to leave it parked. 15:46 captbunzo sorry for that! 15:47 kentish_man With a bit of luck the glass will be cleaned this weekend 15:48 kentish_man If no-one's logged on to the cam, it defaults back to wide angle and focuses on the dirt on the glass. 15:49 kentish_man I'll stay until midnight, then if he doesn't take over by then it's just tough luck. 15:55 captbunzo yuck then on the dirty glass. 15:55 captbunzo hopefully that does get dealt with... 15:55 kentish_man It looks even worse when I log off 15:56 kentish_man 5 minutes and I'm outa here 15:56 captbunzo is the chat page staying somewhat busy? 15:56 captbunzo as in people here on a regular basis?> 15:57 kentish_man Mainly Bruce and me with occasional guests 15:57 captbunzo ...maybe I'll try to put the "resources" together this weekend, then make a bigger annoucement of sorts. 15:57 kentish_man I'm trying to persuade Pat Snyder and Graham Meech to come in. 15:58 captbunzo who are they? 15:58 kentish_man Both keen gazers and Graham is also one of the cam operators 15:59 captbunzo cool 15:59 kentish_man Keep watching and you'll see what happens when I log off. 15:59 captbunzo k 15:59 kentish_man Now 16:00 kentish_man That's the default position 16:00 captbunzo still okish on the focus 16:00 kentish_man It will eventually autofocus on the drops 16:01 captbunzo maybe we got lucky this time :) 16:01 captbunzo ay 16:01 captbunzo ah 16:01 kentish_man It usually does 16:01 kentish_man Huh? 16:01 captbunzo uh - what was that? 16:01 kentish_man Wiper 16:01 kentish_man Must be Craig 16:02 captbunzo did you see the windshield wiper??? 16:02 kentish_man The webmaster 16:02 captbunzo cool 16:02 kentish_man It can only be accessed by the admin software 16:02 captbunzo I wish I could get access to the cam for occassional assistance 16:02 kentish_man It needs a wet sponge too 16:03 captbunzo for cases like now..... 16:03 captbunzo (yeah, it does!) 16:04 kentish_man ----------------------- 16:04 captbunzo ya mean for me to email him? 16:04 kentish_man Email Craig. He's standing in for Tom Cawley until next year 16:04 kentish_man Worth a try 16:04 captbunzo cool. I migt wait until I get the page here a little more finished. 16:05 kentish_man It's up to you. 16:05 kentish_man But with the lack of enthusiasm Garry is showing lately, he might not last much longer 16:05 captbunzo k 16:13 kentish_man Goodnight 16:16 captbunzo nite derek October 20th, 2008 View October’s Logs 14:30 bpnjensen Hi, it's me. not a guest per se... 14:30 bpnjensen Looks like they cleaned the glass... October 21st, 2008 View October’s Logs 12:30 kentish_man test October 22nd, 2008 View October’s Logs 08:28 bpnjensen It's working again! 08:30 kentish_man I be with you in a couple of minutes. Don't go away. 08:30 bpnjensen OK - you did a great job on the Beehive camerawork yesterday! 08:32 kentish_man Was I right in saying there was no indicator at the start? 08:33 bpnjensen I believe that was the case - but it sure started up right after. I did not spot the close-to-cone Indicator, though. 08:33 kentish_man I thought it was "close to cone" that started up. 08:34 bpnjensen Oh - All I saw was the main one - the CtC Ind is alot closer, isn't it? I'll have to watch Dave's video capture again. 08:41 bpnjensen Is this not the regular Indicator? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2IKqKmqRo8Beehive Oct 21 08:41 bpnjensen I can;t hang out long - I have some critical things to do this morning. 08:42 bpnjensen Need to go - back when i can... 08:42 null Just watching 10:32 mtgirl Mornin' Derek. 11:25 bpnjensen I think... 11:25 bpnjensen I;m multicolored today... October 23rd, 2008 View October’s Logs 13:39 bpnjensen OF ie at 1439. Next one around or just after 1600. :D October 24th, 2008 View October’s Logs 07:45 bpnjensen Well, the OF still ie at -844 was just spectacular. lighting and steam cloud all amazing. October 27th, 2008 View October’s Logs 08:00 kentish-man Test